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QUILTERS

Grab the blog buttons below for your website or blog and spread the word about the One Million Pillowcase Challenge! Thank you for helping us get the word out there! Simply copy and paste the code below the button you want and put it on your blog, Facebook page, or use it as your email signature. When your visitors click on this button, they will be taken to the Million Pillowcase homepage.

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Directions for Facebook:

Copy the code under the button you would like to place on your Facebook page.

Go to the Notes tab on your Facebook Profile page and click on "Write a New Note"

Enter a Title for your note, and paste the button code into the Body section. You can also add
more body text here if you would like, either before or after the code.

Upload a photo by clicking "browse" if you want - how about one of your pillowcase(s)?

Click "Publish" at the bottom.

After your note is published, to the right, you'll see a box with "Tag people in this note." Start typing all of your friends and family member's names to share the note with them! Also, use the Share + icon to send a message to specific friends or post this note to your profile.

Directions for Blogs:

Copy the code under the button you would like to place in your blog.

Before you paste the code into your blog, make sure you are in "html view" or "source view" then you can paste the code and submit/post your blog as normal.

Directions for Email Signatures:

Yahoo Mail:

To add one of the above buttons to your email signature, please copy all of the html code in the white box below the image of your choice. Once you have it copied, go into your Yahoo Mail, and go to your Mail Options. There will be a tab for “Signature,” 2nd from the top. All you have to do is paste the code for the button into the signature box and press “Save Changes” at the top. You are now ready to compose an email!

Hotmail:

To add one of the above buttons to your Hotmail email signature, please copy all of the html code in the white box below the image of your choice.

Inside your Hotmail inbox, go to the Options dropdown, and choose More Options. Under the “Customize your mail” heading, choose “Personal email signature.” On the Personal email signature page, above the white box, there will be an editing toolbar. Towards the right, you’ll see a small box with “Rich text” and an arrow for a dropdown. Click on this dropdown, and choose “Edit in HTML.”

Once you are in HTML mode, you’ll need to click into the large white box and paste the HTML code that you copied from above. Once you have pasted it, click “save” in the lower right-hand corner. You have now created your email signature. Now, go to your inbox and compose an email!

Google Mail:

Gmail only allows text in signatures. If you would like to add text, feel free to use either of the following:

AOL:

To add one of the above buttons to your AOL email signature, please copy all of the html code in the white box below the image of your choice.

In your AOL email, go to Settings in the upper right corner. Once inside Settings, choose the 3rd category: “Compose” in the left navigation. You’ll now see a section for “signature.” In the dropdown, choose “Use signature.”

In the new white box that shows up, right-click and paste the HTML code from the button into this box. Then, click the gray “Save” button in the upper-left corner. Once saved, click on “Back to mail” in the left nav. Now, you are ready to compose an email!

Microsoft Outlook 2007 (May vary with different versions):

To add one of the above buttons to your email signature, right click on the image you choose, and save to your desktop, or another easy-to-find location. Then, in your Outlook, go to Tools > Options > Mail Format tab. You should see “Signatures” as a section here. Click on the “Signatures” button. Click “New” to start fresh. Next, you’ll want to click the "picture" icon and browse to find the button image you saved. (The picture icon appears as two gray mountains with an orange sun).

Once you have copied the link from above, go back to editing your email signature. To make your button link, you’ll want to click on it inside the signature, and then click the "Insert Hyperlink" icon. (This icon appears as a globe with a chain link next to it.) The “Insert Hyperlink” edit box will open, and you’ll notice a white “Address:” bar. Place your cursor here and “paste” the URL from the above directions. Once you have done this, click “OK” to save your changes. Your email signature is complete!

Microsoft Entourage 2008 (May vary with different versions):

Entourage does not yet support adding a URL to an image. So there are two ways to go about adding one of the above blog buttons to your Entourage signature.

Add the image and paste the full URL next to it or underneath it.

Link the image in Microsoft Word and bring it over into Entourage. (NOTE: you have to do this each time you wish to send an email).

First, you'll need to download the button image of your choice to your computer by either right-clicking to "save image as" or by dragging it to your desktop.

To add the button and full URL:From Entourage: Go to Tools > Signatures. A new window will pop-up showing you're current signatures. Make a new signature by clicking on the green circle icon with the plus sign located in the top left hand corner. In the signature window that pops up, give your signature a name. Then click in the text box below and go to Message > Insert > Picture. Browse to where you saved the image on your computer, select it and click "choose". Your image will now show up in your signature box. Then cut and paste this URL after your button: http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases (Hit return after your button if you'd like the URL to appear below it instead of next to it). Because you've placed the entire URL, Entourage will automatically recoginize it as a link and make it clickable for you. When your signature is complete, go to File > Save. Your new signature is now available and can be chosen from the "signatures" dropdown within a new email.

To add the linked image utilizing Microsoft Word:Open up Microsoft Word and go to Insert > Picture > From File. Browse to where you saved the image on your computer, select it and click
"insert ". Your image should now appear in your Word document. Click on your image to select it and go to Insert > Hyperlink. In the window that pops up, copy this URL into the "link to" box: http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases. Make sure the "Webpage" button is selected and hit "ok". Now that your image is clickable go to File > Send To > Mail Recipient As Html. Entourage will automatically open a new email message with your linked button attached. Compose your email and send! As noted above, the only drawback to this method is you'll have to preform this last step from Word each time you want your clickable button to appear in your email. Save your Word document so you don't have to recreate it each time.